Mila Kunis Opens Up About Being A Mother

19/06/2016 5:05:00 PM

And talks candidly about Ashton Kutcher.

While Mila Kunis may be on the promo trail for her film Bad Mums, she's anything but. With her second child on the way with husband Ashton Kutcher, she's spoken candidly for the first time about how motherhood has been treating her, while ruminating on its challenges.

Speaking to a handful of journalists in the unlikely location of a salad dressing aisle in a New Orleans supermarket, Kunis revealed that she's in a parenting sweet spot with her one daughter Wyatt Isabel at the moment.

"I only have one little human. She's not so bad. [Co-stars Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn have] got two," she told PopSugar. "I have an amazing husband and my parents live in the same town as I do... but she's only 17 months old. She's rambunctious but she's not there yet where she's two and a half and I'm like 'Holy sh*t, this is demon baby.'"

For Kunis, success in motherhood all comes down to the support of her friends and taking a light-hearted attitude to being a parent, particularly when she needs help in some sticky situations.

"I think people like to know they're not alone. I think that the second you're like, 'Oh wait' and that you can put humour at it, and it's something that you can make light of. I think before my parents were raising my brother and I, everything had to go perfectly... Nowadays, if sh*t's going wrong and I call my best friend and I'm like, 'I don't know, this colour is coming out of her nose and I'm pretty sure she's dying.' And it's okay to do that now, but I don't know if it necessarily was okay before. I think this movie brings light to that."

And friends come in handy for sharing parenthood war stories, too.

"My friends have always been very open with their horrible day excursions. I think we all have some. I don't know that this would be necessarily prompting my friends to be like, 'Oh wait, me too!' It mostly happens every day — they're like, 'Holy sh*t, let me tell you about what happened today.' I think it's an everyday occurrence."

Yet she doesn't shy away from discussing the nastiness and competitiveness that occasionally comes with new Mum territory. Thankfully, Kunis is fiercely against mum-on-mum competition.

"It's the competitive energy that is so destructive. It's just like you said — we're all in it together. You only are a mummy in this way for such a brief amount of time anyway that you don't wanna look back and be like, 'Why did I care about that stupid nonsense?'"